How are the teams balanced in a versus match with less than 8 players

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Suppose I play with 3 other friends a versus match, and would like the teams to be random.

Can I leave all characters unchosen and get a 2 v 2 match? Or the result would be random also? Perhaps all 4 survivors, or infected, or 3 v 1?

Can it be configured somehow to always balance team equally (in terms of number of players)?

Best Answer

In my experience, it will even out the teams with the advantage going to survivors. In other words, if you have 4 players in a lobby and all go random, it will put 2 players as survivor and 2 players as infected. If you have 5 players in a lobby and all go random, it will put 3 on survivors and 2 on infected, with the next player to join filling in the vacant spot to even out the teams.